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I’d like to launch a long-running background job at application startup. I noticed the kotlinconf-app does this: <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app/blob/master/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlinconf/backend/Sessionize.kt#L25>

```
fun Application.launchSyncJob(sessionizeUrl: String, sessionizeInterval: Long) {
    <http://log.info|log.info>("Synchronizing each $sessionizeInterval minutes with $sessionizeUrl")
    GlobalScope.launch {
        while (true) {
...
```

I was wondering why it uses `GlobalScope` instead of the `Application` `CoroutineScope`? Is there a reason to prefer one or the other for this sort of thing? (Assume the background job should run for as long as the Application is up.)